Land leases for Bullet Tree Falls residents

Posted: Thursday, August 28, 2014. 4:02 pm CST.

Bullet Tree Falls village

Thursday, August 28, 2014. PATRICK E. JONES Reporting: The government of Belize has distributed land leases to residents of Bullet Tree Falls, Cayo.

According to a government press release, one hundred and five residents were presented with their lease documents during a ceremony that was held in Bullet Tree Falls village on Wednesday afternoon.

The government press release says that the distribution was carried by my Minister of Natural Resources Gaspar Vega and the UDP Cayo North standard bearer Omar Figueroa.

The official release says that of the one hundred and five leases that were handed out, forty of them were regularized documents.

According to the release “for these first-time lease holders, these papers provided a solution to decades-old uncertainty regarding ownership of the land on which their families reside.”

The survey and subdivision costs were covered by government in an effort to provide the families with security and legal rights to their property.

The Ministry of Natural Resources says that the distributing of land lease documents will continue nationwide as government continues to work to give Belizeans access to and ownership of land for their own socio-economic benefit and betterment.

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